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Anybody have a suggestion for a site similar to this (engine analysis and all) but also with human commentary to explain things to those of us whose chess skill earlier stage?
Watching the game live with this open in another tab is cool. On Friday, it showed that Caruana had a winning position with a mate in around 30 moves. It was so non-intuitive that no chess player would have ever found it. But it is cool to see that the game "could have been" won.
[1] https://www.pentagram.com/work/world-chess
[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-42425587
Magnus Carlsen with a rating of 2835 is playing against Fabiano Caruana with a rating of 2832. This is their 7th game. They tied for all the previous 6.
On a side note: I think Pentagram did an amazing job with the WCC branding [1] in 2014. It's ridiculously non-conventional for a serious organization such as FIDE to adopt it. They did reject the proposal for Shuka Design for the new "pawnographic" (as it was hastagged on twitter) logo [2] for the 2018 championship and only kept the arms tangled up around a chess board. Still, its extraordinary and personally I love…
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It's the first time since 1978 (Karpov-Kortchnoi) that a world chess championship begins with 7 draws, the longest draw in a raw beggining in a world chess championship !
Welcome to modern, boring chess. I wish we still had hyper-aggressive grandmasters like Mikhail Tal.
Edit: Alphazero's record against Stock Fish is 28 wins, 72 ties and 0 losses.
In a 100 game matchup, AlphaZero had 28 wins 72 draws and 0 losses. I'd classify that as orders of magnitude better.
https://www.chess.com/news/view/google-s-alphazero-destroys-...
Considering AlphaZero was orders of magnitude stronger than stock fish, it would be interesting to see AlphaZero's analysis if it was available. Edit: Alphazero's record against Stock Fish is 28 wins, 72 ties and 0 losses. In a 100 game matchup, AlphaZero had 28 wins 72 draws and 0 losses. I'd classify that as orders of magnitude better. https://www.chess.com/news/view/google-s-alphazero-destroys-...
Dumb chess question from a person that's never competed, why are international chess rankings divided by Male or Female? There are even olympic sports now that are mixed-gender such as Curling.
See https://www.quora.com/Since-chess-is-not-a-physical-game-why...